Scoop: Senate Republicans eye piecemeal government reopening

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Source: msn/Axios

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is considering bringing full-year appropriations bills — such as one to fund the Pentagon and pay the military — to the floor for a vote, he told Axios on Wednesday.

Why it matters: Bipartisan talks to reopen the government via a short-term spending stopgap bill are frozen. Now, Thune is at least contemplating other options.

Bringing standalone appropriations bills to the floor would be a long and tortuous way to reopen the government, department by department.

To pass a bundle of multiple appropriations bills — like the one that passed the Senate earlier this year — would require unanimous consent.

But Thune could bring a single appropriation bill to the floor if it has already been passed by the House, like the Defense package.

What he's saying: "We're prepared to do that," Thune told Axios when asked at what point he would consider bringing committee-passed appropriations bills to the floor.

He added, "that takes consent. We got to find out if the Dems are going to let us do anything while the government is shut down."

"But yeah, I'm ready to call up the Defense approps bill," he said.

Zoom in: The strategy has the backing of Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine), who thinks finished appropriations bills "should immediately be brought to the floor."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/scoop-senate-republicans-eye-piecemeal-government-reopening/ar-AA1O6D3E

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is considering bringing full-year appropriations bills — such as one to fund the Pentagon and pay the military — to the floor for a vote

Bringing standalone appropriations bills to the floor would be a long and tortuous way to reopen the government, department by department.

Instead of wasting the year on bogus "show investigations" and jamming through the Brutal Barbaric Bill to shovel money to billionaires and literally destroy the government and kill people, they should have been working ON those "individual appropriations bills", passing them out of Committee, and bringing them to the floor for debate and a vote... which is THEIR JOB, and is "regular order".